How should you determine the preferred URL structure?

[kayl87]

Hi Guys,

When migrating to a new CMS which include new pages how should you determine the URL structure, specifically:

• So should we include www. or without it?
• Should the URL have a trailing slash?

How would you determine the answer to these questions?

Cheers.

[Andrew-SEO]

The URL structure should match the menu structure. This is beneficial to bots crawling your site.

You're two specific questions are open to discussion. I've heard pros and cons of both.

Traditionally it's include www with trailing slash only on directories